About Me
I'm Tobias Klaver. I live in The Netherlands, and I work as Principal Platform & Infrastructure Engineer at Connect IoT.
In practice that mostly means building and keeping alive the infrastructure and backend systems behind Connect IoT, Trackpac, EdgePilot, ChirpCloud, WiFind and WeIoT. Plenty of moving parts. Keeps life interesting.
Day to day I work across Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, NATS, FastAPI, Python, MQTT and whatever else needs building or fixing that week.
Before going deep into infrastructure and backend engineering I did freelance web development and studied Informatics at Hogeschool Inholland, although I eventually dropped out to pursue Hexaspot, an IoT company I started in 2021 and later sold after officialy joining Connect IoT in 2023 after having done some freelance work for them.
This blog is mostly a place to write down things I figure out, break, fix or overthink. Infrastructure, Kubernetes, IoT, self-hosting and occasionally a disaster story.
Informal writing. No nonsense.